“STATE” SCHOOLS

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18851, 23 January 1933, Page 5

“STATE” SCHOOLS

TEACHERS DISLIKE THE WORD. ■Members of the- Federated State School Teachers’ Association of Australia, who continued their annual conference at Sydney, resent the associations involved in the use of the words "Slate schools.’’ "To my mind the term ‘State’ is associated with State institutions and State infirmaries,” said Dr Currey. Conference decided not to take any action. Including the word "generally," to make the resolution elastic., so far as rural conditions are concerned, conference agreed on the necessity for raising the school leaving age to 16 years. Introducing a motion for the establishment of super-primary courses for boys and girls who wish to follow small farming occupations, Mr A. .1. Souter said that while 14,000 pupils sat for Ihe Intermediate each year the number of agricultural pupils was only one and a half per cent. "Every boy leaving school is the legatee of Dick Whittington in his imagination, but, when opportunity is denied, is it any wonder t hat some of them become Dick Turpins,” he said.

Miss Baker said that there were children growing up without education, except for the casual instruction imparted by their parents, and conference agreed lo a motion providing that education by correspondence be compulsory in all outlying districts of Australia.